looking for the best translation of the iliad, please help me

Fagles for beginners.

Pic is related though, that's Achilles in his true form mate

>>9547809
Achilles was black

>>9547927
WE

>>9547654
>>9547687
>>9547809
>>9547927
>>9547940
>/lit/ anno 2017
saged

>>9547654
Fagles is good

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>>9547654
Chapman is very fine, Pope is too. If those prove too heavy try Lattimore.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/44481

>>9547687
>>9547961
Never.

Lattimore.

>>9547927
>WE
Ah, yes, the famous blond savage

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Thoughts on the Verity translation?

Fagles reads like shit
Go with Fitzgerald

>>9548165
>Ah, yes, the famous blond savage
Nice simple description for the incarnation of Ares. Was that intentional, brah?

odorico mendes

E. V. Rieu

>>9547654
Chapman ftw.

The best translations are faithful to the target language, not the source language. Chapman writes as if Homer had been English.

>>9547654
Get whatever translation you want, but also get War Music by Christopher Logue.

>>9548833

I really enjoyed it, but I'm not an authority.

fitzgerald master race.

>>9547940
WAS

>>9553196
KANGS

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>>9547654
I enjoyed Pope, Fagles is good as well.

>>9552355
Nobody here is, Anon

>>9553200
N

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>>9553251
SHEEEEIT

I liked Fagles

>>9550447
Why do you recommend this one? I have that edition but I've been told it's better to read the Iliad in verse.